post-haste

posthaste

As quickly or promptly as possible. I need to get this application in the mail posthaste, or else my work permit is going to expire!Please report to your supervisor posthaste.

ˌpost-ˈhaste

(literary) with great speed: I shall send the invitations off post-haste.This comes from the old phrase haste, post, haste, which was written on letters to tell the post (= the person taking the letters) to ride quickly to deliver them.

Then, brother," I replied, "you can return to your China, post haste or at whatever haste you are bound to go, as I am not fit for so long a travel and, besides being ill, I am very much without money, while Emperor for Emperor and Monarch for Monarch, I have at Naples the great Count of Lemos, who, without so many petty titles of colleges and rectorships, sustains me, protects me and does me more favour than I can wish for.

David Hallman, a Canadian Christian author and an ecological advocate, argues that greed, domination, and fear are the values prevailing in Western societies that must be replaced post haste if we're to restore the planet.

That being the case I look forward to senior NHS management figures, managers of Stafford Hospital and the Health Minister(s), covering the period from 2005 to 2008, being hauled before the European Court of Human Rights post haste.

Granted, Di Matteo won the Champions League with an intrinsic role played by many of the side that won back-to-back titles in the 2004/05 and 2005/06 seasons, the way he left no room for sentimentality in offloading them post haste was impressive.

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